The Expelled edition by Mois Benarroch Pamela Daccache Literature Fiction eBooks
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An unexpected encounter at the central bus station with a woman identical to the Expelled’s wife but thirty years younger, who happens to be the same person. An adulterous relationship that is not quite what it seems. A bus hijacked by terrorists, where two castes are formed, one superior, the front people, and another inferior and oppressed, the back people that support and justify the oppressor. Books within books and an ending that connects the past with the future to turn the expelled into an improved person. A novel that affects us deeply, by a writer who refuses to write like everyone else.
When the Sephardim were chased from Spain in the fifteenth century and they arrived in Morocco, they were called "Megorashim" (expelled), which had an opposite meaning to the term "Toshabim" (settled). However, for centuries, it didn’t have a negative connotation, on the contrary, being an expelled person was like belonging to nobility. Five hundred years later, the narrator feels expelled from everywhere, his town, his family, his lovers, his countries, to gradually start understanding that “I had become, just like my ancestors, an expelled.”
The Expelled edition by Mois Benarroch Pamela Daccache Literature Fiction eBooks
As a fan of Benarroch’s poetry and a casual fan of metafiction, I was very excited to read this novel. The concept in particular intrigued me; after all, it’s not every day that you hear about someone encountering someone who looks and acts like their spouse, only decades younger. However, in comparison to Benarroch’s poetry collection titled The Immigrant’s Lament and other metaphysical works like Jorge Luis Borges’s The Library of Babel, The Expelled falls short of my expectations.This book did not feel like a true novel. Rather, it felt like two shorter stories forced into the same novel. Admittedly, the narrator warns that it might seem like that should this story be turned into a book, but that still does not excuse the disconnect I feel between the overall narrative and the story-within-the-story. They are loosely connected by shared themes—immigration, prejudice, persistence of memory, being ostracized—but the connection did not feel very strong and, to be frank, I’m not entirely sure why one story was placed within the other.
The writing could use some work as well. Much of the character development—as minimal as that is—occurs in exposition, which leads to an excess of exposition in this novel. That’s a pretty big pet peeve of mine, but I don’t know if it would bother every reader. The prose is also jumbled, repetitive, and clunky, and I think further editing would do it a load of good. The issue might be with the translation process, so I feel I have to forgive Benarroch that especially since I know from his poetry that he generally writes very well.
One of my favorite aspects of this novel has to be the asides from the narrator about his writing career. There’s a bitter humor to it, a humor which I understand all too well, and I think that other readers will enjoy the glimpse into a writer’s mind and struggles. However, they might become a bit distracting and the narrator’s self-absorbed, self-pitying attitude might get on readers’ nerves.
All in all, I still think the concept has a lot of potential; this book just doesn’t take advantage of it as well as it could. I also think that the larger narrative and the story-within-a-story would do a lot better if they were just on their own as individual novellas or short stories. Perhaps other readers will find something connecting the two stories which I missed, but for now I’m having a hard time figuring out how one might enhance the messages of the other. Lovers of metafiction will find a good, albeit probably frustrating, challenge in this read, but others might want to wait at least until they can spend a long stretch of distraction-free alone time on reading it. Even then, fans of more mainstream fiction will want to skip it. I still recommend Benarroch as a writer overall; this book just isn’t my favorite of his works.
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The Expelled edition by Mois Benarroch Pamela Daccache Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Getting off a bus in Tel Aviv, a man meets a beautiful woman and starts an affair. Is he really a cheating husband when this woman is a 25-year-old incarnation of his wife? The narrative switches to a story within a story, taking the reader on a surreal journey with the passengers on a hijacked bus who divide into warring factions as they ride through the promised land. I'd recommend this to those who enjoy magic realism and those who would like to see a new perspective on the Middle East. However, the language is stilted, with frequent grammatical errors and unidiomatic English.
Not only was it entertaining and funny at times, it was also very educational. Spoiler! I felt completely wrapped up in the confusion of both worlds or were there more...
In a way it made me reflect on myself which gives it a bit of a philosophical aspect.
I loved it. Well written.
The book is more of an outline for a book than a novel. There are a lot of mini stories that can be more detailed as chapters.
'The Expelled' spins a thematic tale that deals with the concept of division from large sale perspective to a personal point of view. while largely a historical account of the discrimination faced by the Sephardic Jews, Bennaroch manages to intertwine other accounts of division, which will leave the reader in a reflective mood.
The Expelled is a complex story written in a semi-surrealistic style, somewhat after the fashion of The Metamorphosis by Kafka and The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov. In a relatively few number of pages the author takes on a wide variety of social topics using both and altered sense of reality and the story-inside-a-story technique. While Mois Benarroch manages to weave a remarkably complex literary tapestry that frequently leaves the reader somewhat off-balance, readers who aren't accustomed to a somewhat more disruptive reading style might have a hard time following the story line.
Mois Benarroch has a unique voice in the Israeli literary scene. You'll enjoy reading him.
Mois Benarroch is one of the best contemporary Israeli/Sephardi writers with an extraordinary vast repertoire of novels and poetry based on a long and rich Jewish Sephardi heritage, yet a unique and highly distinctive author and poet. It is hard to describe the experience of reading a novel by Moise Benarroch as it does not resemble any common experience of reading other novels. I am highly recommending to try it and see for yourself!
As a fan of Benarroch’s poetry and a casual fan of metafiction, I was very excited to read this novel. The concept in particular intrigued me; after all, it’s not every day that you hear about someone encountering someone who looks and acts like their spouse, only decades younger. However, in comparison to Benarroch’s poetry collection titled The Immigrant’s Lament and other metaphysical works like Jorge Luis Borges’s The Library of Babel, The Expelled falls short of my expectations.
This book did not feel like a true novel. Rather, it felt like two shorter stories forced into the same novel. Admittedly, the narrator warns that it might seem like that should this story be turned into a book, but that still does not excuse the disconnect I feel between the overall narrative and the story-within-the-story. They are loosely connected by shared themes—immigration, prejudice, persistence of memory, being ostracized—but the connection did not feel very strong and, to be frank, I’m not entirely sure why one story was placed within the other.
The writing could use some work as well. Much of the character development—as minimal as that is—occurs in exposition, which leads to an excess of exposition in this novel. That’s a pretty big pet peeve of mine, but I don’t know if it would bother every reader. The prose is also jumbled, repetitive, and clunky, and I think further editing would do it a load of good. The issue might be with the translation process, so I feel I have to forgive Benarroch that especially since I know from his poetry that he generally writes very well.
One of my favorite aspects of this novel has to be the asides from the narrator about his writing career. There’s a bitter humor to it, a humor which I understand all too well, and I think that other readers will enjoy the glimpse into a writer’s mind and struggles. However, they might become a bit distracting and the narrator’s self-absorbed, self-pitying attitude might get on readers’ nerves.
All in all, I still think the concept has a lot of potential; this book just doesn’t take advantage of it as well as it could. I also think that the larger narrative and the story-within-a-story would do a lot better if they were just on their own as individual novellas or short stories. Perhaps other readers will find something connecting the two stories which I missed, but for now I’m having a hard time figuring out how one might enhance the messages of the other. Lovers of metafiction will find a good, albeit probably frustrating, challenge in this read, but others might want to wait at least until they can spend a long stretch of distraction-free alone time on reading it. Even then, fans of more mainstream fiction will want to skip it. I still recommend Benarroch as a writer overall; this book just isn’t my favorite of his works.
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